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Post by jjas on Feb 10, 2023 13:12:54 GMT -5
If they didn’t what my entire life savings for a new one I’d probably trade it in man are they proud of them trucks I about fell over when I bought this one 13 years ago they have doubled in price Yeah, was looking at at 2018 with 80k mi. They only want $56k. Lol. I'll be driving my old crap forever at this rate. What a crock of BS. I know you probably aren't looking for it, but the husband of a co-worker of my wife's bought a new Ford Lightening. She doesn't know what they paid for it, but I looked it up and they range from the high $80's to about $110,000. That's nuts. I honestly don't know how people can afford it. Not to mention that they are new to the market and who knows how well they will hold up. $110,000 is a lot to spend to be a guinea pig.
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Post by deadeer on Feb 10, 2023 13:47:18 GMT -5
Yeah, was looking at at 2018 with 80k mi. They only want $56k. Lol. I'll be driving my old crap forever at this rate. What a crock of BS. I know you probably aren't looking for it, but the husband of a co-worker of my wife's bought a new Ford Lightening. She doesn't know what they paid for it, but I looked it up and they range from the high $80's to about $110,000. That's nuts. I honestly don't know how people can afford it. Not to mention that they are new to the market and who knows how well they will hold up. $110,000 is a lot to spend to be a guinea pig. No way. We are a single income family. Still got the mortgage, 3 hungry mouths to feed, 3 gas tanks to fill, etc. I'm way too gun shy to stick my neck out with a commitment like that. I'm still pretty handy, so I can keep the wheels on most of the time. Knock on wood, regular maintenance has kept us going without many break downs. So, I'll probably just be driving "last years model" forever. Lol
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Post by treetop on Feb 10, 2023 14:43:35 GMT -5
Yeah, was looking at at 2018 with 80k mi. They only want $56k. Lol. I'll be driving my old crap forever at this rate. What a crock of BS. I know you probably aren't looking for it, but the husband of a co-worker of my wife's bought a new Ford Lightening. She doesn't know what they paid for it, but I looked it up and they range from the high $80's to about $110,000. That's nuts. I honestly don't know how people can afford it. Not to mention that they are new to the market and who knows how well they will hold up. $110,000 is a lot to spend to be a guinea pig. I don’t how but you see them all day long at least I see them in Fort Wayne crazy nuts to pay 100 grand for a truck car suv unless your just plain loaded with cash. What’s sad is I’m going to have to pay 60 70 for a used one before much longer if this keeps up maybe I’m just a cheep butt but I can’t see it you know how many fishing trips I can take with that much money LOTS of them
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Post by Woody Williams on Feb 10, 2023 18:10:01 GMT -5
Probably 2 foot now was around 14 inch’s a few weeks back when I was up we can get about 40 inch’s on Steve’s auger Good. A guy I know that lives N of Minneapolis has 30" of ice now. Watch driving with a loose fuel cap. That can throw a CEL all by itself. Speaking of ice thickness .. Alan and Sandra lived on a cove at Gull Lake Alberta . It was early winter and the lower portion of the cove had frozen over. Alan asked Sandra if she would walk across the frozen part of the cove to the general store and get him some smokes and beer. She asked him for some money, but he told her, "Nah, just put it on our tab. Old man Stacey won't mind." So Sandra, being the good wife, walked across the ice, got the smokes and beer at the store and then walked back home across the cove. When she got home with the items she said, "Alan, you always tell me not to run up the tab at Stacey's store. Why didn't you just give me some money?" Alan replied, "Well, Sandra, I didn't want to send you out there with cash when I wasn't sure how thick the ice was!" A love story like this almost brings tears to your eyes...
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Post by treetop on Feb 11, 2023 8:54:32 GMT -5
Just about to Canada looks like the truck is fixed been hitting some bigger hills last few hours so far so good
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Post by ms660 on Feb 11, 2023 12:41:21 GMT -5
That’s the plan they tell me it’s probably a mapping sensor I’ve tried to find vacuum leaks but not found anything thing that stands out, To be honest I really don’t know what a mapping sensor is but they tell me it reads load vrs fuel and to me driving that’s what I told them it fills like I run out of gas it’s like going from a V8 to a V6 motor Sometimes you spray carb cleaner or starting fluid around vacuum hose or intake and idle will go up or down if it has a leak. I used to use that trick, spraying carb cleaner to help find leaks. I quit doing that when it was a bad plug wire that was causing my truck to run like crap. I had a small explosion when the wire arching on the exhaust manifold ignited the carb cleaner. I couldn't hear or see the wire arching, the carb cleaner sure showed me it. Put new plug wires on it and it ran like a new one again. I looked funny driving it without eyebrows.
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Post by Woody Williams on Feb 11, 2023 13:34:08 GMT -5
Now THAT is funny!!!
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Post by Russ Koon on Feb 15, 2023 10:41:59 GMT -5
ms660, I know the feeling. We had a '74 Ford wagon with the 460 engine, and the wife informed me it was starting slowly and smelled funny, "like gas". That got my attention and I figured I better check it out right away, and since it was just after sundown at the time, I thought it would be a good time to check it for visible leaks and also any spark jumping that might be seen better than in the full daylight. So I had her come out in the driveway with me to crank it over while I watched.
Didn't take long! Looked like some sort of light show with sparks running every which way across the engine, and I could easily see a stream of gas being sprayed across the whole sparking mess! I was jumping back and yelling at her to stop and get out of the car IMMEDIATELY! Still amazed that the whole thing didn't go up. Next day I was out there looking at in daylight and saw what I expected to find as a cause for the light show, a bunch of old original plug wires. But the thing I hadn't expected was the gas spraying all over. The reason wasn't hard to find either, as there was a rubber section of the fuel line that made a sharp right angle turn just a few inches from the carb. Right where you'd think they would have put a metal line, Ford had put a about six inches of black rubber, which naturally aged and developed cracks on the stressed outside of the sharp bend, a prefect combination for spraying the entire top of the engine with fuel droplets.
Over the next few years, I noticed seeing several of the Fords and Mercurys either being towed away or sitting in a salvage yard with evidence of engine compartment fire being obvious as their probable cause for being there, and I saw another one as I was leaving home on a hunting trip and a late model Merc was sitting in the middle of road almost to the top of the hill approaching our driveway. A man in a suit was jumping out of the drivers seat and reaching for the hood latch, bare-handed! I could see the heatwaves coming off the hood but it was too late to warn him as he had already grabbed it before I could get my truck stopped. He jumped back with nothing but a very uncomfortable burn on his hand, and his wife quickly got out of the front seat as well.
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